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CONCERTO FOR TWO

The Oslo Philharmonic returns to Ann Arbor for
its first visit in 11 years at 8 p.m. Saturday, March
12, in Hill Auditorium, with a new director: Andre
Previn.
The Jewish pianist/composer/conductor was born
in Berlin in 1929 and came to the United States as a
child. Once married to Mia
Farrow, with whom he has
two children, Previn wed
acclaimed violinist Anne-
Sophie Mutter in August

2002.
She will perform Previn's
modern, yet romantic and
nostalgic Violin Concerto,
commissioned by the Boston
Andre Previn
Symphony in 2001 for
Mutter and first performed with Previn conducting
in March 2002. Mutter and Previn have toured the
concerto extensively since its premiere, and a record-
ing of the work was released in 2003 on Deutsche
Grammophon; it recently won a Grammy.
Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and
R. Strauss' Ein Alpensinfonie complete the program.
$10-$65. (734) 764-2538 or
www.ums.org .

PERLMAN PLAYS VIVALDI

To welcome the upcoming
warm weather (we hope!), Itzhak
Perlman and the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra will perform
the "Spring" and "Summer"
movements of one of classical
music's best-loved works, Vivaldi's
The Four Seasons, 8 p.m.
Thursday, 8:30 p.m. Saturday and
3 p.m. Sunday, March 10, 12 and
13, at Orchestra Hall at the Max
M. Fisher Music Center. Perlman

Itzhak Perlman

Celebrity Jews

NATE BLOOM

Special to the Jewish News

Let Me Sing!

We didn't learn until just
before the Oscars that
Uruguayan JORGE
DREXLER, the Oscar win-
ner for Best Song, is the son
of a German-Jewish refugee
to Uruguay and a non-Jewish
mother. Drexler, who was
raised Jewish, won for his
Oscar winner
song "Al Otro Lado del Rio"
Jorge
Drexler
or "On the Other Side of the
River," which he sings in the
film The Motorcycle Diaries. Interestingly, Drexler,
40, is also a medical doctor, has lived in Israel, and
a few of his songs are on Jewish-related themes.

will conduct and be the featured violin
soloist.
Perlman, who with these concerts con-
cludes his tenure as the DSO's Principal
Guest Conductor, also will lead the
orchestra in Beethoven's Overture to
Egmont and majestic Symphony No. 3
("Eroica").
Tickets are $16-$69 (box seats are $69-
$114). Seniors (60 and over) and stu-
dents can purchase rush tickets at the box
office 90 minutes prior to classical con-
certs, based on availability.
As Principal Guest Conductor, Perlman led the
DSO in some of the greatest classical works in the
canon, as well as a wide spectrum of shorter works,
while simultaneously performing important solo
violin works. In addition, he taught annual master
classes to the DSO's premiere youth ensemble, the
Civic Orchestra, and participated in many special
DSO events, among them the gala opening of the
Max in October 2003.
For tickets, call (313) 576-5111 or go to
www.detroitsymphony.com .

ANNE FRANK' FOR FAMILIES

In its 10th season present-
ing an Anne Frank-related
project for schools, Jewish
Ensemble Theatre presents
student matinees of The
Diary of Anne Frank, the
Broadway play by Francis
Goodrich and Albert Hackett
adapted by Wendy Kesselman
and directed by JET Artistic
Director Evelyn Orbach,
Sara Catherine Wolf
Mondays-Fridays, through
as Anne Frank
March 18, at the Detroit
Institute of Arts. Sara
Catherine Wolf stars as Anne.
A 15-minute talkback with the actors and stu-

Spanish-language papers have heavily covered the
firestorm created by the decision of the Oscar show
producers not to allow Drexler to perform his
song, but to give the spot to the more famous
Antonio Banderas. The director of Motorcycle
Diaries called the decision "not only ethically, but
aesthetically unacceptable." Drexler responded by
limiting his acceptance speech to singing a few
verses of his song without being "kitschy," some-
thing Banderas was unable to do.

In Merry Ole England

DAVID SC

R, of Friends fame, will make
his London stage debut in May in the play Some
Girls. He plays a ladies' man that visits four of his ex-
girlfriends before proposing to his current one.
This is not, however, Schwimmer's first British
stage appearance. In 1987, he appeared at
Edinburgh's Fringe Festival in a production of
Lookinglass Alice, adapted from Lewis Carroll's
book. The cast was composed of Schwimmer's fel-

dents, facilitated by Education Outreach
Coordinator, Mary Davis, follows each
performance. All tickets are $7.
There will be a public performance of
the play 12:30 p.m. Sunday, March 13,
also at the DIA. Tickets are $7 for chil-
dren and $12 for adults.
For more information and to book for
student groups, call (248) 788-2900 or
email outreach@jettheatre.org . Individual
tickets are available at the door.

FOUR HANDS

The Chamber Music
Society of Detroit presents
two acclaimed Jewish
pianists in concert, in duo-
piano performances, 8
p.m. Friday, March 11,
and 8 p.m. Saturday,
March 12, at Seligman
Performing Arts Center in
Emanuel Ax and
Beverly Hills.
Yefim Bronfman
Polish-born Emanuel Ax
moved with his family to Winnipeg, Canada, and
now resides in New York City with his wife, pianist
Yoko Nozaki. Born in Tashkent in the former Soviet
Union, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with
his family before moving to the U.S. and becoming
an American citizen in 1989.
Friday's two-pianos performance features Brahms'
Sonata in F minor for 2 Pianos and Stravinsky's The

Rite of Spring.
Saturday's two-pianos program includes
Schumann's Canonic Etudes, Debussy's En blanc et
noir, Ravel's La Valse and Stravinsky's The Rite of
Spring.
Tickets are $33-$70 and $23 for students. Call
(248) 855-6070 or go to
www.ComeHearCMSD.org .

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low Northwestern University students, and the
show was financed with Schwimmer's bar mitzvah
money. In 1989, the Lookinglass cast became
Chicago's Lookinglass Theatre Company. It's now a
top regional theater.
Just completing a trip to England is Jewish porn
star RON JEREMY, who spoke to the Oxford
Union at Oxford University. The Union prides
itself on the diversity of its speakers, and its
spokesperson thought that Jeremy would be an
interesting addition to the Union's usual run of lec-
tures from ex-presidents and Nobel laureates.

New Projects

KATE HUDSON, the cute actress and daughter
of GOLDIE HAWN, has been cast as "Jeannie" in

a big-budget film version of the popular 1960s
show I Dream of Jeannie. Filming begins this sum-
mer. Although Goldie's late mother is Hudson's
only Jewish grandparent, Kate describes herself as
Jewish. ❑

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